Subject: Re: Western Flycatchers (was Western Flycatchers/Grebes)
Date: May 13 06:28:38 1996
From: "Jack Bowling" - jcbowling at mindlink.bc.ca


On Mon, 13 May 1996 00:01:06 PDT, tweeters at u.washington.edu wrote:

>And (the best for last) a Western Flycatcher 'Pacific-slope' and a Western
>Flycatcher 'Cordilleran' caught in the same net at the same time on Saturday
>at the famous Douglas Creek Banding Station. The brit ringer there to observe
>was thanking his lucky stars there were no Empids in England. You may be asking
>how I knew the difference in hand. It takes a while, Pyle et.al.,and some
>experience.

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All right, I give. Just how do you tell the two apart in the hand without
hearing them sing??????

- Jack

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*Jack Bowling *
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